Naturally most birds like to wake up in the early morning and goto bed mid-evening. This works out perfectly with my day schedule. I have a very flexiable schedule at work. If I am birdsitting, I usually try to keep the bird(s) on their normal everyday schedule. I will come in the morning, wake up the bird(s) and do my morning visit. Most people work, so I do just that. Go to work for 8 hours and then go straight from work to the clients house for the evening visit. This is a longer visit and it allows the bird(s) to really have some one on one time with me.